High School! Kimengumi

High School! Kimengumi
Cast shot from High School! Kimengumi
ハイスクール!奇面組 (Hai Sukūru! Kimengumi)
Genre	Comedy, School
Manga
Third Year Funny-face Club
Written by	Motoei Shinzawa
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run	1980 – 1982
Volumes	6
Manga
Written by	Motoei Shinzawa
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run	1982 – 1987
Volumes	20
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Fukutomi
Studio	Gallop, Studio Comet
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	October 12, 1985 – September 26, 1987
Episodes	86 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Directed by	Makoto Moriwaki
Studio	Studio Comet
Released	July 12, 1986
Runtime	51 minutes
Manga
Return of High School! Funny-face Club
Written by	Motoei Shinzawa
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Super Jump
Published	December 1, 2000
Volumes	1
Manga
Flash! Funny-face Club
Written by	Motoei Shinzawa
Published by	Square Enix
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Original run	2001 – 2005
Volumes	3

High School! Kimengumi (Japanese: ハイスクール!奇面組, Hepburn: Haisukūru! Kimengumi^?) is a manga series written by Motoei Shinzawa which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1982 to 1987. The title literally translates to High School! Funny-face Club or High School! Weird Face Club. An anime TV series (1985–1987) and movie (1986) based on the series were also released. The High School! manga series was preceded by Third Year Funny-face Club (3年奇面組, Sannen Kimengumi^?) (1980–1982), and followed by Flash! Funny-face Club (フラッシュ!奇面組, Furasshu! Kimengumi^?) (2001–2005).

Kimengumi is an episodic chronicle of the bizarre adventures of a group of misfit junior high school (and later, high school) boys who form a club known as the "Kimengumi". All of the character names in the series are puns. For example, "Kawa Yui" is another way of saying "kawaii", and "Uru Chie" is a slang form of "urusai", meaning "obnoxious" or "annoying".